A Sanquhar man told a jury he was thrown through a window when a Rangers supporters’ bus overturned on a roundabout.

John Burns, 63, was giving evidence at Glasgow High Court at the trial of bus driver Callum Phillips who denies killing Ryan Baird in a fatal crash.

Phillips, 49, from Dalbeattie, is alleged to have caused the death of 39-year-old Ryan by dangerous driving at Crossroads Roundabout, near Kilmarnock, on October 1, 2016.

Ryan, from Sanquhar, died as he and fellow Rangers fans were travelling to Glasgow for a home match against Partick Thistle.

Mr Burns told the court on Wednesday that he was travelling on the bus for the first time and was taking a six-year-old boy to his first Rangers game.

They got on the coach at Sanquhar but later in the journey it doubled back at Cumnock to collect two passengers that had not been picked up.

He claimed Phillips’ driving “seemed to get more erratic as if he was trying to make up time”, adding: “He was right up behind cars. I wasn’t too happy about the driving, but there wasn’t much I could do about it.”

He became worried as the coach with 37 passengers on board got to within 30 yards of the roundabout.

“I said to myself no way is this bus going round the roundabout. It was going too fast to take the roundabout,” he told the court.

Mr Burns, who was sitting about five rows behind the driver, grabbed hold of the six-year-old boy and held on to him.

He said: “The bus seemed to swing. The next thing I remember is branches of trees hitting the windscreen and I was thrown threw the window on the passenger side.”

The court was told that Mr Burns’ back was covered in cuts from broken glass. The boy was not injured, but still suffers nightmares.

Earlier a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the jury that he was on the Nith Valley Rangers supporters bus when it crashed.

The schoolboy, who suffered scarring to his forehead, said: “The window was smashed and I managed to crawl out. Everyone was shocked, people were trapped under the bus. I saw someone stuck and covered in blood.”

Phillips is alleged to have driven the bus at “excessive speed” on various roads between Thornhill and Mauchline.

Prosecutors claim he lost control of the bus at roundabout, causing it to skid and crash.

Popular Irishman Ryan had moved to Sanquhar three years before the tragedy. There he met fiancee Sarah Hughes who he was due to marry last August.

The dad of twin boys from a previous relationship was described as being so badly hurt that he never recovered.

Other fans on the bus are also said to have been injured.

Phillips also faces two other charges of driving dangerously at the wheel of a bus in 2016. He denies all the charges against him.